Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This 6,000 page reference center is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

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Blind Lemon Jefferson (ca. 1890-1929)
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Reverdy Cassius Ransom (1861-1959)
Oregon State Capitol Building
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(1953) Oregon Fair Employment Practices Act
New York Times Article on the Lynching of George Smith, Obion County, April 1931
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Eyewitness to Terror: The Lynching of a Black Man in Obion County, Tennessee in 1931

Explore Global African History

Emecheta Buchi
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Florence Onye Buchi Emecheta (1944- )
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Benjamin Zephaniah (1958- )
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Oliver Law (1900-1937)
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Yaa Asantewaa (mid-1800s-1921)

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

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Contraband Hospital, 1862-1863: Health Care For the First Freedpeople
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Telling Secrets, Spying Freedom: A Novel Account of Mary Bowser’s Civil War Espionage
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The Tie Breaker Ruling in Perspective: A Plaintiff Looks Back on the Historic U.S. Supreme Court Decision of 2007
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The Blood of Entertainers: The Life and Times of Jimi Hendrix’s Paternal Grandparents

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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